This blog is meant as a resource for people who wants to know about the US$150 laptop Medison Celebrity that went missing. News, articles and personal opinions. We also bring up Medison Consulting in general and Valdi Ivancic's other adventures.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

New press release from Medison

IDG/Computer Sweden today published a new press release sent to them by Medison. Unfortunately it only seems to be written in Swedish this time:

Hopefully someone will translate it, or maybe Medison will do so themselves later. But it's the worst press release yet from them yet with loads of pure BS. I'll try to cover some of Valdis points:

"Some individuals that writes blogs and on forums have almost said that Medison is a scam company, but has also encouraged their readers to pure persecution of key persons in Medison." He goes on and writes that it's really hard for them to stop these rumors and speculations, because the persons that writes them doesn't have any insight in Medisons business, contracts, products, payment procedures, deliveries, or if Medison is a scam. The persons that write this do it because of "pure envy or other motives in the background".Newsflash Valdi: It's not only on blogs and forums that you can read about that Medison might be a scam and is an unserious company. It's everywhere. Newspapers, serious business-sites and so on. And what about the "persecution"? I read loads of blogs and forums about this, but I haven't seen anything about anyone who encourages persecution of anyone in that way.And of course people doesn't have insight in Medisons business, how could we? And why is it so hard to answer the accusations and rumors, just give us the information that give us anything trustworthy that can be checked with the sources.

After this, he writes about why they changed hosts and the speculations about that they would have shut down the sites and ran of with the money. He writes that thatisn’t the case, but the reason of changing hosting provider was because they have received requests from customers to "increase the availability" of the sites because customers have had problems reaching the sites during "certain periods". To meet this request, they choose to "put themselves on servers that they believe can cope with the expected traffic increase".Oh, really? Where can we read about those accusations? Sounds quite interesting to read. I thought that the speculations were that their sites were disabled by their previous hosting provider due to one reason or another. And when would these problems have been? I check both sites daily, and never had a problem reaching them until this weekend when they changed hosting provider. And is the solution to this really to shut down the sites and make them inaccessible? As of this moment, medison.se is yet again unreachable, and pages are still missing from medisoncelebrity.com.

Valdi also goes on with the same story as usual about that the customers money are safe with 2co, and that the delay are because of "logistical problems". Seems like it's this story that 2co has bought without getting any facts. He also say that the computers are delayed, but doesn't mention any new date. They also negotiate with several companies in several different countries about "exclusivity", whatever he means with that. He ends with writing that people shouldn’t trust the lies and accusations about Medison, the rant about "democracy" and that they are a serious company that cares about their customers and that they will indeed deliver all computers. Oh please...

Valdi could do a ton of things to prove to people that he has a real product. Like:

1. Send samples to the press. Some journalists have already paid. Just a few would help a lot.

2. Send a photo of the product label with all the approval numbers. Nothing is secret anyway on the label any customer can read.

3. Send photos of the many laptops already produced from the assembly line, warehouse, QA department life test setup etc. etc. There are a ton of photos he could show if he wanted without revealing company confidential information.

4. Publish the user manual with a link on the web site. OOPS...I forgot, what languages are that user manual available in?

I'm wondering why some of the Swedish customers who haven't received their laptops nor news from Medison haven't come together to file a law suit against the company? I don't know how fast the courts in Sweden work but I'd imagine that the threat alone (a letter from a lawyer)would force Valdi into giving more detail.

As for the poster who said: "Please use this blog for good, and not evil." Well I agree with Tommy. This blog serves a good purpose. There are many consumers out there who could be duped and the key to a successful company is trust (that and an actual product)and if Valdi keeps ducking the issue, then we, as consumers, have a right to knowledge. Blind obedience never leads to good...

For all those anonimous people who likes reading blogs from some other hidden person this is a question: do you expand time also with something usufull or just stay in front of the computer since you do not have something more intersting to do?Ha,ha,ha...

When will the laptops be delivered?

The first deliveries was promised to be the 15th of August 2007. This was pushed to the 31st of August 2007.
This was
and not a single computer has been delivered yet.

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